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Hey guys, I am going to be attending college here in a few weeks and I a picking up a new laptop to take with me.

 

I want to be able to have a laptop to take notes on/potentially do some work with (nothing too demanding) so something with a battery that can last a few hours no problem BUT I also want to be able to edit/render videos on it as when I am out on trips I often bring good video cameras. So it is important for the computer to be able to render videos fast as like LMG at events I sometimes need to edit/render several videos in a day, after a full day at an event, with something starting early the next day. Additionally I want to be able to game on the go, you know, at lunch, between classes sometimes, and at the gaming club. I want to be able to run modern stuff fairly well, but it doesn't need to be perfect as at home I have a dual Xeon rig with an ASUS STRIX 1070 and triple 24" displays that I can bring to events.

 

TLDR I am going to school and want a laptop to take notes with, but I also want to be able to edit videos and play game, but it doesn't need to be perfect with gaming

 

 

Now for my question, I have decided on the ASUS XX502VM and it comes in 2 models the GL502VM and the FX502VM. From what I can find the main difference is that the GL model has the 6GB GTX 1060 and the FX has the 3GB GTX 1060, BUT there is a $140 difference between the 2 laptops.

 

So is it really worth $140 more to get the 6GB model over the 3GB model? If this was going to be my main rig I would go with the 6GB model, but as just a secondary system i'm not so sure.

 

 

As it is just a stock laptop it will only be 1080P gaming, not dual/triple 1080p or 4K or anything.

 

 

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Personally, i think its not worth it.

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4 minutes ago, Vandorlot said:

Personally, i think its not worth it.

Yeah, for a secondary laptop it may not be worth it.

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If it was a desktop i'd say get the 6gb .. the desktop 1060 3gb version has less cuda cores than the 6gb version, I wonder if this is the same in the laptop gpu's.I've read that it is the same, and actually has  1152 cores instead of 1280 in the 6gb version. Not sure why nvidia did this. 

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4 minutes ago, jarmenti said:

If it was a desktop i'd say get the 6gb .. the desktop 1060 3gb version has less cuda cores than the 6gb version, I wonder if this is the same in the laptop gpu's.I've read that it is the same, and actually has  1152 cores instead of 1280 in the 6gb version. Not sure why nvidia did this. 

but is 10% more cuda cores worth $140 to a college student? Especially as a secondary rig.

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i guess if your a better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it  type LOL

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I did buy a dell 7567 for under a grand CAD w/ a 1050ti, and kind of wish i spent the extra 200 on an acer helios to get a 1060, too late for me though!

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20 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

Now for my question, I have decided on the ASUS XX502VM and it comes in 2 models the GL502VM and the FX502VM. From what I can find the main difference is that the GL model has the 6GB GTX 1060 and the FX has the 3GB GTX 1060, BUT there is a $140 difference between the 2 laptops.

 

you're paying for a better build, better screen, better trackpad etc. 

 

also you should get neither of them cause asus is garbage. what is ur budget?

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Alienware is junk too LOL.. M11x displays literally falling off the laptop anyone? the first and last alienware i'll ever buy. Had an asus g73... wasn't the most premium build quality, but lasted up until this year when it finally started having random system hangs. 

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27 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

not dual/triple 1080p or 4K or anything.

What'd you say about my triple monitors? /s

 

You'd be fine with the 3GB GPU. Your priorities should be warranty, laptop material and durability, storage, and whether you need a quad- or dual-core. 

 

I would recommend Lenovo's Thinkpads if you're looking for a good student laptop. Some will come with 960M and up. 

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7 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

you're paying for a better build, better screen, better trackpad etc. 

 

also you should get neither of them cause asus is garbage. what is ur budget?

Is the GL line better all around? Also I am trying to stay around $1000-$1250 USD

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2 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

Is the GL line better all around? Also I am trying to stay around $1000-$1250 USD

https://www.gentechpc.com/product-p/sager-np7850.htm

 

no laptop asus makes is good cept maybe the G701, GL502VM is fine too but alot of issues it seems like. 

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20 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

but is 10% more cuda cores worth $140 to a college student?

Cuda is overrated anyway. You dont need it to get better performance. (as seen with Apple products) 

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My friend has a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming and boy is it a nice laptop. It is really well built, has a great screen, a well over 8 hours of battery life while web-browsing. It has a 1050 ti with 4gb of vram. It will have far better build quality than the asus. I am currently typing on a three almost four year old asus GL551 with an 860m. The complete laptop has fallen apart, I had to replace the battery after a year and a half when half the cells died, one speaker stopped working, and the plastic chassis has cracks. I had to reapply thermal paste after a year because my laptop thermal throttled so much. My brother's dell which is also 3 years old is in far better condition. (We use our laptops similarly). As a secondary pc, a dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming will do you very well with a 1050 ti.

 

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-7567-laptop

 

If you were to pick one of the two laptops you listed in your post, the 3gb will do just fine as a secondary pc, but if you have the cash the 6gb will last longer. For rendering videos and photoshop items, you should be fine with 3gb. If you are added multiple extensive effects and animations get the 6gb.

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13 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Cuda is overrated anyway. You dont need it to get better performance. (as seen with Apple products)

gaming "performance" is terrible compared to a 1060 on all apple products. 

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1 minute ago, Rezalis said:

My friend has a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming and boy is it a nice laptop. It is really well built, has a great screen, a well over 8 hours of battery life while web-browsing. It has a 1050 ti with 4gb of vram. It will have far better build quality than the asus. I am currently typing on a three almost four year old asus GL551 with an 860m. The complete laptop has fallen apart, I had to replace the battery after a year and a half when half the cells died, one speaker stopped working, and the plastic chassis has cracks. I had to reapply thermal paste after a year because my laptop thermal throttled so much. My brother's dell which is also 3 years old is in far better condition. (We use our laptops similarly). As a secondary pc, a dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming will do you very well with a 1050 ti.

 

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-7567-laptop

I know that dell rocks, there computers have proven that to me time and time again, but I want something with a 1060 minimum at around $1000 USD +/- and dell just didn't have what I want at that price point. At this point I might just be going with the SEGER that @Pendragon recomended. Segers seem to have a good rep, and they are a good price too

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Lol macs. makes me wanna go watch the rooster teeth Mac switch parody vids about gaming.    "The good thing about a Mac is when it's time to upgrade you just throw it in the garbage and buy a whole new one"  hahah rooster teeth classics

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Just now, Pendragon said:

gaming "performance" is terrible compared to a 1060 on all apple products.

Not against the 5K iMac with the Radeon Pro 580 xD

 

Also I was referring to productivity tasks, not gaming. 

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7 minutes ago, Rezalis said:

My friend has a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming and boy is it a nice laptop. It is really well built, has a great screen, a well over 8 hours of battery life while web-browsing. It has a 1050 ti with 4gb of vram. It will have far better build quality than the asus. I am currently typing on a three almost four year old asus GL551 with an 860m. The complete laptop has fallen apart, I had to replace the battery after a year and a half when half the cells died, one speaker stopped working, and the plastic chassis has cracks. I had to reapply thermal paste after a year because my laptop thermal throttled so much. My brother's dell which is also 3 years old is in far better condition. (We use our laptops similarly). As a secondary pc, a dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming will do you very well with a 1050 ti.

 

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-7567-laptop

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Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Not against the 5K iMac with the Radeon Pro 580

 

that's a desktop. you can fit 1080ti sli versus that if you relaly wanted to. 

 

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Also I was referring to productivity tasks, not gaming. 

other than final cut and logic pro, what other software benefits from have open cl compared to cuda. hmm?

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3 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

At this point I might just be going with the SEGER that @Pendragon recomended. Segers seem to have a good rep, and they are a good price too

post your config here. that are some things you need to get and somethings you don't 

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1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

what other software benefits from have open cl compared to cuda

Looks at Mac app store* 

 

Cuda is limited to one GPU brand isnt as effective as OpenCL. Those are the two main programs that use it that I know of off the top of my head and really that's good enough for probably 90% of Apples customers 

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Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Looks at Mac app store* 

 

and uhh wat do u find? hmm? 

 

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Cuda is limited to one GPU brand isnt as effective as OpenCL

dats cute. as much as i love amd you forgot that  CUDA is the dominant player in all professional server space so it's actually the other way around. OpenCL is not optimized because nvidia dominates the space. Apple had to develop it's own programs. and like you said its literally limited to those 2 programs.

 

can you run excel plugins well on mac? nope garbarge. that throws out all finance and business professionals that require capiq and bloomberg plugins. 

 

can you run powerpoint automation via access and oracle database backfeeds? nope, there goes the other half of business professionals and 90% of how most corporate companies structure their data sets. 

 

do you find corporate companies running macos systems as their core? nope. cept apple. 

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